Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield